NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 June 1926, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE —PRES3 ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. LONDON, June 15. Answering Air dynes 1 ’ fears regarding the effects of the anti-preservative regulations upon food supplies, the Food Council points out- that tests in New Zealand sheaved that preservatives were unnecessary. British distributors and consumers were quite commonly unaware of the difference between the borio-ti'eatedi and boneless butter from the Antipodes. DELHI, June 10. There were serious riots at Rawalpindi between Mussulmans and- Sikhs over the projected construction of a cinema in the vicinity of a mosque. Eight Mms 1 man S' were killed .and nine Sikhs and 14 Mussulmans wounded. The grain market was destroyed and side streets looted. The police and military are picketing the station. WARSAW. June 15. GeneraL Szeptycki,, ex-Chief of General Staff, refused to shake hands with General Skrzvnski because the latter did not shelter him against Marshal Rilsudski’s personal attack. The l friction resulted in a duel in which both stood back to back. , advanced seven and a half paces 'ancl wheeled. Genera] Szeptycki fired and missed, whereupon General Skrzvnski threw down his pistol, saying: “When I pull a trigger I always hit the target, and 1 refuse to kill von. If anyone else in Poland believes he is justified in 'shooting me, he’s welcome to.” MOSCOW, June. 15. The Soviet, in reply to the British Note, denies that the sums remitted to the British Trades Union Council were sent by the Soviet Government, hut states they were sent by the l Central Council of the labour unions. It. disavows the Government’s responsibility, hevond that involved in granting a permit to remit the money abroad, and points out that the Government cannot prohibit trade unions. comprising 1.000,000 workers, from sending money abroad to aid trade unionists in another country.